Chapter 145, Volley (2)
"Now, check the gear. The pen www.biquge.info "Chang Le gave orders to his soldiers in a low voice. Everyone began to check their weapons and equipment according to the regulations. According to the procedure, first of all, each person checks by himself, then the squad leader and deputy squad leader inspect the soldiers of each squad, the platoon leader and deputy platoon leader inspect each squad leader and deputy squad leader, and Chang Le, as the company commander, and Wang Tao, the deputy company commander, inspect the other platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders together. Finally, the trainer inspects the company commander and deputy company commander. Chang Le noticed that many of the soldiers were constantly sticking out their tongues and licking their lips, and that they were taking significantly longer than usual to complete the entire inspection process. It seems that the fighters are still a little nervous.
At this time, a bronze bell in the main fortification was struck, and the sound of the bell reached Changle's ears.
"Raise the flag! All march in two columns! Chang Le commanded in a slightly trembling voice.
The loud sound of the bell also attracted the attention of the two hundred Manchu cavalry and the passing refugees.
Niu Lu Zhangjingji Hari, who led this group of cavalry, turned his head to look over there, and saw a blood-red flag erected from behind the ice wall, and the oncoming sea breeze blew the flag into a hunting sound, and also made the roaring tiger painted on this red flag seem to come to life, almost the next second it was about to jump out of the flag and eat people.
"Zhang Jing, there's another side over there!" The other cavalryman pointed to another ice wall, where an identical Blood Sea Tiger Banner was also erected.
The two flags moved along the ice wall, and then turned to the gap left by the ice wall, and two groups of soldiers in strange green uniforms began to approach the Qing army quickly under the guidance of these two flags. Next to them, two two-wheeled carriages drawn by two horses appeared, and behind the carriages was a six-pounder bronze cannon. At the same time, a loud trumpet sounded, followed by a calm drum.
Private Jiang Tie's mouth was a little dry, although he was also there when he was in the blood book in the morning, although he also knew that it was the soldier's responsibility to rescue the compatriots who were taken away by Jianxuan, (at least, this was what he had read in the book, and he also felt that this was very reasonable) But he was still a little nervous, his hands tightly grasped the flintlock pistol, and mechanically followed everyone forward, until the military horn sounded, and then the voice of the company commander came from the front: "Sing the military song!" ”
Immediately after that, Chang Le sang a song first, and then more business came in, and the song became louder and louder.
"Arise, sons and daughters of the Fatherland.
The glorious moment has come.
The banner of evil has been raised,
It was the banner of the beast.
Listen to the cry of the battlefield,
The cruel beast roars.
They will come out of our bosom,
Take away our parents, wives and children.
Model Army, take up arms!
Model army, fight to the death......"
The singing voice is empowering, making the singer feel that he or she is inseparable from the rest of his companions. Jiang Tie felt the saliva appear in his mouth again, and his movements were no longer stiff. At the same time, a raging rage burned in his chest. When they were receiving military and cultural education, the instructors told them that the robbers were the culprits who caused their misfortune. In order to resist them, the Ming government had to take out the money and food that should have been used as disaster relief materials for military expenses, and even continued to levy taxes on the victims who had been affected by the disaster, that is, their parents, causing them to leave their hometowns and let their parents starve to death on the way to escape the famine. It's just that at that time, Jiang Tie hadn't seen Jianxian with his own eyes, let alone how they raged like locusts. But now it's all in front of his eyes. Just like the one depicted in the war song he was singing.
"Morale is still high. I really didn't expect that someone would dare to run out and die. Jihali said, in his opinion, these two teams together were only three or four hundred people, and there were only muskets in their hands, and there were no other spears or anything to match, and they also put up such a thin first-line column, which was simply to send them to death.
"Wait a minute, follow Lao Tzu!" Jihali said to his subordinates, "Defeat one team on this side first, then turn around and destroy the one side there." ”
However, he did not immediately rush forward with his cavalry, but continued to wait for the "Dutch soldiers" to get closer. This means that they will be farther away from their nest and it will be harder for them to run back. Especially so that those cannons don't have time to run back.
As these "Dutch soldiers" approached, the Manchu cavalry also began to make preparations and helped each other to put on their armor. At this time, the distance between the two sides was already closer, and the Manchu cavalry could already see the equipment on the opposite side. The guys were wearing half-body armor covered with green cloth, and it was impossible to tell what material it was made of, but both hands and feet were unarmoured. However, their helmets are very good, and they all wear visors.
Gihari frowned, the armor made his best skill, shooting a heavy arrow straight at close range pointless, but Gihari didn't pay much attention to it, as muskets and a few small cannons alone could not stop the cavalry from a direct onslaught.
At this time, the opponent's two-wheeled carriage turned around and lowered the cannon. The muzzles of the cannons began to point at Jihali them.
"Alright, get on the horse." Gihari waved his hand, and although more often than not, he had defeated his enemies by dismounting, but now the men in front of him had neither dense spears nor horses in front of them. The musket had only one chance to shoot at the cavalry, and if one shot could not hit, the cavalry rushed forward, and as for the artillery, according to the experience of Jihari, it only fired one shot. And then he rushed in, and then there was a massacre, at least in Jihali's opinion.
Gihari estimated the distance, and then began to urge the war horse, and began to slowly approach the "Dutch" with more than two hundred cavalry. It's still far away, and if you let the horse run now, when you get close to the enemy, the horse won't be able to run. Therefore, experienced cavalry will slowly accelerate until it is time to attack the enemy, and then increase the speed to the maximum.
With a long whistle sounded. In the blink of an eye, the column of the "Dutchmen" was rapidly unfolded into a long horizontal line.
This swift tactical move took Jihali by surprise, and he knew that on the battlefield, it was impossible for a very well-trained unit to perform such a tactical move. The average army, let alone on the battlefield, or even on the school field, cannot accomplish such an action so well. Even the army of the Great Qing Dynasty could not do this.
However, Gihali didn't think that such a change of formation was very useful, and it became a horizontal team, although it made it easy to exert the power of the muskets, but just by relying on such a thin line, could they stop my Qing Dynasty's iron cavalry? Jihali still felt that he could easily defeat his opponent, and now the distance was only a hundred paces, and Jihari began to urge the war horse to accelerate, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching.
At this time, the cannon of the Dutch on the opposite side rang out, and two solid shells landed on the ground not far in front of the cavalry team, and then rebounded, and crashed into the horse team at once, one of the shells failed to hit the target, but it passed by the horses at high speed, but frightened many of the horses, so that two horses were frightened and ran wildly, and threw the rider off their horses.
Another cannonball hit a horse with a bang, and the whole horse and the rider on the horse were shattered and scattered.
"Holy shit, so lucky!" Jihali scolded harshly. But he didn't let the horses speed up, he felt that these two shots of the Dutchmen were purely luck. It's not where it should be.
"Boom, boom!" The cannon of the "Dutch" rang out again, although there were only two cannons, but they fired faster than the speed at which Uzin Chaoha could shoot. To make matters worse, the two guns hit the target again, causing another casualty and causing Gihari to lose two riders again.
"Damn it! How can these guys be so fast and so accurate? "Gihari now understands that if he continues at this pace, the enemy will be able to fire at least three more shots before he reaches the distance where he can charge. He was not willing to bear such a loss.
"Accelerate!" Jihali gave this order in advance.
"Raise your gun, aim!" Jiang Tie's ears came with the shout of platoon commander Zhou Cheng, and he immediately raised the gun in his hand like all the soldiers, firmly pressed the butt of the gun against his right shoulder, and then squinted one eye to aim.
"Shoot war horses, and when dealing with cavalry, you should shoot war horses." Jiang Tie remembered what the company commander, platoon commander, and squad leader had said almost a hundred times before the war, and pointed the muzzle of the gun straight at the war horse of the Qing cavalry rushing towards him.
"Fire!" Jiang Tie's ears sounded the platoon commander's shout, and then the next moment, including Zhou Cheng, all the people fired the guns in their hands, and the light blue smoke from the flintlock pistol blurred the scene in front of them a lot.
At this time, the whistle sounded three times in a row. Jiang Tie knew that this was an order to change the formation, he was the leading private, he didn't need to move at this time, he didn't need to reload bullets, all he had to do was to immediately load the flintlock pistol with bayonets and prepare to meet the enemy cavalry.
The exemplary military is the three-ring-type one. Edge. Thorns, because of the increased length of the three-edged structure, this bayonet can be made quite long, and the bayonet of the model army is 550 mm long, and it can be used almost as a short sword in peacetime. Jiang Tie put the butt of the flintlock pistol on the ground, the muzzle of the gun was facing upward, and lowered his head not to look at the oncoming Manchu cavalry. With his right hand, he pulled the bayonet from his waist, then put it on the barrel, fixed it with a twist, and then raised the flintlock pistol with the bayonet attached, like a short spear. Point the bayonet diagonally at the sky.
At the same time that Jiang Tie completed this series of actions, the other comrades-in-arms also completed the change of formation, and the original single-row horizontal team turned into several double-row hollow phalanxes in an instant. The outermost warriors of the phalanx were loading their flintlock muskets with bayonets, while the warriors in the inner layer were busy loading their rifles. At this time, the gunners of the two six-pounder guns fired their final shots—shotguns—and quickly burrowed into the hollow phalanx of the infantry.
At this time, the smoke of gunpowder had also been blown away by the sea breeze, and the Manchu cavalry had already rushed to a place not far from these warriors.